Non-refillable bottle.



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. UNITED STATES Patented November 15, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN TALLMADGE DELAFIELD, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-EIGHTH TO JAMES P. DAWSON, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

SPECIFIATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 774,884, dated November 15, 1904.

Application ned Mai-h 23, 1904.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN T-ALLMADGE DELAFIELD, a citizen of the United States, residing at St Louis, Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inNonforming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view through the neck of a bottle to which my invention is applied. Fig. 2 is a top. plan view of a lock for the plug. Fig. 3 is a side elevational view of the lock. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the guard. Fig. 5 is a side elevational view of the guard. Fig. 6 is atop plan view of the plug. Fig. 7 is a side elevational view of the plug, and Fig. 8 is a side elevational .view of a cap cooperating with the plug.

This invention relates to bottles, and particularly to a closure therefor, one of the objects being to provide means whereby spurious liquids cannot be forced into the bottle after the `closure is in position.

Another object is to provide means in the neck of the bottle which will permit the original contents to be easily discharged through the neck, but which will eiiiciently prevent the admission of any additional liquid.

Another object is to provide means Whereby the neck of the bottle will become broken in the event that any undue pressure be eX- erted upon the closure Afrom the exterior of the bottle.

Another object is to provide a guard which will prevent manipulation of the parts by unauthorized persons.

Further objects and advantages, as well as, the novel details of construction of this invention, will Ybe specificallyd escribed hereinafter,

yit being understood that changes Vin form, proportion, and'minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention or sacrificing any of the advantages thereof.k

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 designates a bottle having a neck 2,

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1 .which neck is constricted at 3, where it joins the body ofthe bottle, the constricted portion providing a shoulder 4. Intermediate the ends of the neck is a shoulder 5 for the purpose of receiving a lock to be more speciically described hereinafter.

The reference-numeral 6 designates a plug provided with a plurality of ports 7, through which the liquid may pass from the bottle. These -ports are normally closed by a flat valve 8, having a valve-stem 9, which passes throughan opening 10 in the ported plug 6, said valve being designed to remain seated except .when the bottle is in an inverted position. Surrounding the ported plug 6 and preferably locked in a groove therein is a gasket 11, engaging'the inner wall of the neck 2 of the bottle to prevent any leakage between the walls of the plug and the bottle-neck. der that the valve will remain seated except whenthe bottle is inverted, I employ a gravitating device, illustrated as comprising a ball 12, the movement of which is limited by the cap 13, supported upon the posts 14, fixed on the ported plug 6. It vwill be observed that the posts are provided with shoulders 15 to receive the free edges of the cap 13, so that said cap will be properly held or supported over the plug. I prefer to construct this cap in the form of a truncated cone, as illustrated in Figs.`1 and 8. The reason for this is that acap provided with straightinclined walls will have a tendency to cause the ball or weight to gravitate toward the disk valve and retain it upon its seat even when the bottle is partly inverted. Thus the liability of the valve being unseated a sufficient amount to permit the introduction of spurious liquids will be materially lessened. Superposed above the cap and se- `curely iixed'within the bottle-neck is a locking device, which in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 is illustrated as a disk 16, having upwardly-inclined vradially-disposed resilient fingers 17, each tinger of which is provided with loppositely-disposed projections or tongues V18 and 19, provided with offset portions to form shoulders 2O and 21 to limit the movement of an adjacent cooperating tongue carried by the succeeding iinger. .lVhen stamped up or other- In orwise formed, this locking device will be of a substantially semispherical skeleton structure, all of the fingers of which can be simultaneously sprung toward the center of the disk as the lock is being inserted into the neck, the contractibility of the fingers, however, being destroyed as soon as the lock is inserted in the neck, so that they will be permitted to expand with their upper edges abutting against the shoulder rlhus a withdrawal of the lock will be impossible without breaking the neck of the bottle.

In order to prevent the introduction of any implement or tool between the fingers 17 so as to disturb the elements beneath, a guard 22 is provided, which guard in its preferred form comprises a disk having radially-disposed wings 23 and 24, cach alternating wing being inclined in an opposite direction, as clearly indicated in Fig. 5, so that the passage of the liquid through the neck will not be retarded, but the introduction of a tool past the guard will be impossible. Inactual practice I prefer to secure this guard to the lock by a rivet or other suitable fastening device 25.

26 designates the usual stopper commonly employed in connection with bottles for sealing' them. It will be apparent that after the stopper 26 has been withdrawn from the neck of the bottle the introduction of any tool or implement for the manipulation of the weight 12 will be impossible and that the valve will remain seated upon the ported plug until the bottle is inverted in such a position as to preclude the introduction of any liquid therein. If an attempt is made to force the plug' into the bottle by any pressure, the sharp angular edge 27 of the plug will be caused to bite into the bottle-neck, so as to break it, as will be obvious by reference to Fig. l.

The parts can be assembled as follows: The plug, with its valve, can be readily introduced into the bottle-neck until the edge 27 rests upon the constricted portion thereof. The gravitating device, with its cap, can then be dropped, respectively, upon the valve and upon the posts of the plug, after which the lock will be sprung into place, so that the bottom of the guard or its fastening device will rest upon the cap and prevent accidental displacement thereof, after which the sealing-plug 26 can be introduced in the usual manner.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A bottle having a ported plug with upstanding posts, a cap resting upon the posts, a valve for closing the ports in the plug, a gravitating device between the cap and the valve to hold the valve seated over the ports, and means for holding the cap upon the posts; substantially as described.

2. A bottle having a constricted neck, a ported plug within the neck, the lower portion of the plug' having its edges resting adjacent to the constricted portion of the neck, which edges are adapted to disrupt the neck ofthe bottle under pressure, and means for normally closing the ports in the plug; substantially as described.

3. A bottle provided with a neck having a ported plug therein, a valve for closing the ports in the plug, means for maintaining the valve seated upon the plug, and a lock for preventing the withdrawal of the plug, said lock comprising a plurality of connected radially-disposed fingers having overlapping portions and engaging the groove in the neck; substantially as described.

4. A bottle provided with a neck having a ported plug therein, a valve for closing the ports in the plug, means for maintaining the valve seated upon the plug, and a lock comprising a plurality of upwardly and radially disposed connected fingers having angularlyprojecting tongues independently overlapping each other; substantially as described.

5. A bottle provided with a neck having a ported plug therein, a valve for closing the ports in the plug, means for maintaining the valve seated upon the plug, and a lock comprising an approximately semisperical yielding skeleton structure provided with overlapping portions having shoulders to limit the contraction of the skeleton structure; substantially as described.

6. A bottle provided'with a neck, a valveplug in the neck, and a llock for preventing the withdrawal of the plug, said lock comprising a plurality of connected radially-disposed fingers having overlapping portions and engaging a groove in the neck; substantially as described.

7. A bottle provided with a neck having a ported plug therein, a valve for closing the ports in the plug, means for maintaining the valve seated upon the plug, a lock comprising a plurality of upwardly and radially disposed connected fingers having angularlyprojecting tongues independently overlapping each other, and a guard carried by the lock; substantially as described.

8. A bottle provided with a neck having a ported plug therein, means for closing the ports in the plug, and a lock comprising an approximately semispherical, yielding skeleton structure provided with overlapping portions having shoulders to limit the contraction of the skeleton structure; substantially as described.

9. A bottle having a ported plug in the neck thereof, a valve for opening and closing the ports, a guard above the valve and ported plug comprising a disk having radially-disposed blades defiected toward the valve, each alternating blade being inclined in adifferent direction, and means for retaining the guard in the neck, comprising upwardly-defiected spring-fingers for engaging the neck of the bottle; substantially as described.

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10. Abottlehavingaported plug in the neck In testimony whereof I hereunto aHX my thereof, a valve for opening and closing the signature, in the presence oftwo Witnesses, this .IO ports, a guard above the valve and ported 24th day of March, 1904. y

plug comprising a plurality7 of radially-dis,- posed blades, each alternating blade being BENJAMIN TALLMADGE DELAFIELD' inclined in a different direction, and means Witnesses: for retaining the guard 1n the neck; substan- B. F. FUNK,

tially as described. GEORGE BAKEWELL. 

